Exhibitions

2015

• PopTech
  Camden, Maine · Presentation
• IDFA
  Amsterdam · DocLab
• Future of Storytelling
  New York · Story Arcade
• Transmedia Immersive University
  Paris, France · I Love Transmedia
• Centre National de l'Audiovisuel
  Luxembourg · Exhibition
• Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
  Karlsruhe, Germany · Infosphere

2014

• The Barbican Centre
  London, UK · Digital Revolution
• Centre of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
  Barcelona, Spain UT · Big Bang Data
• Sundance Film Festival
  Park City, UT · New Frontier
• AIDC Australia Doc Conference
  Adelaide, Australia
• NightOwl Discovery
  Minneapolis, MN

2013

• International Documentary Film Festival
  Amsterdam, Netherlands · IDFA DocLab
• Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Virei Viral · Opening
• Sheffield Doc/Fest
  Sheffield, UK · Cross Over Lounge
• Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
  Richmond, VA · Flow Just Flow

2012

• The Future of Storytelling
  New York, NY · Story Arcade
• Skellefteå Konsthall
  Skellefteå, Sweden · Jonathan Harris
• Credo Gallery
  Sofia, Bulgaria · Balloons of Bhutan

2011

• The Pace Gallery
  New York, NY · Social Media
• Design Museum Holon
  Holon, Israel · Decode
• Gwangju Design Biennale
  Gwangju, South Korea · Design is Design is not Design
• Haus für Elektronische Künste Basel
  Basel, Switzerland · Together in Electric Dreams
• Adobe Museum of Digital Media
  San Jose, CA · Inform
• Speedshow
  Brussels, Belgium · Speedshow
• Emily Davis Gallery
  Akron, OH · Collider

2010

• Central Academy of Fine Arts
  Beijing, China · Decode
• Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
  Moscow, Russia · Decode
• BCA Center
  Burlington, VT · Inner Landscapes

2009

• Victoria and Albert Museum
  London, UK · Decode
• National Museum of Contemporary Art
  Athens, Greece · Tag Ties
• Australian Center for the Moving Image
  Melbourne, Australia · Screen Worlds
• Sundance Film Festival
  Park City, UT · New Frontier
• Norrköping Visualization Center
  Norrköping, Sweden

2008

• The Museum of Modern Art
  New York, NY · Design and the Elastic Mind
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  Houston, TX · Color Into Light
• International Documentary Film Festival
  Amsterdam, Netherlands · IDFA DocLab
• World Science Festival
  New York, NY
• Ginza Graphic Gallery
  Tokyo, Japan
• Intermedia Arts
  Minneapolis, MN · W(e are) here

2007

• Singapore City Hall
  Singapore · Singapore Design Festival
• Netherlands Media Art Institute
  Amsterdam, Netherlands · Video Vortex
• IEEE
  Sacramento CA · Infoviz 2007
• Processing
  Online Exhibition · Universe
• The Creators Series
  New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA

2006

• Le Centre Pompidou
  Paris, France · Les Yeux Ouvert
• William Benton Museum of Art
  Storrs, Connecticut
• Triad Gallery
  Seoul, Korea · I’ve Been Waiting for You
• Laufen Gallery
  Prague, Czech Republic · GenArt
• Processing
  Online Exhibition · We Feel Fine

2005

• Ars Electronica
  Linz, Austria · Prix Retrospective
• Sonar
  Barcelona, Spain · Datascapes

2004

• AIGA
  New York, NY · Annual Design Review

1998

• Deerfield Academy
  Deerfield, MA · Landscapes

Awards

2015

• Hemera Foundation
  Tending Spaces Fellowship
• Vermont Studio Center
  Residency
• New Inc
  The New Museum · Residency
• Adobe
  Cutting Edge Award (Network Effect)
• Favorite Website Awards
  Site of the Month
• Favorite Website Awards
  Site of the Day
• Chrome Experiments
  Featured Experiment
• Hemera Foundation
  Tending Spaces Fellowship

2014

• Pioneer Works
  Scientist in residence
• Weber State University
  Hurst Artist in Residence
• AIGA
  100 Years of Design · We Feel Fine

2013

• International Documentary Film Festival
  DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling · I Love Your Work
• Los Angeles Times
  Best of the Web · Cowbird

2012

• TIME Magazine
  50 Best Websites · Cowbird

2010

• Herhúsið
  Artist in Residence
• Webby Awards
  Structure / Navigation · Sputnik Observatory
• Webby Awards
  Cultural Institution · Sputnik Observatory

2009

• World Economic Forum
  Young Global Leader
• Santa Fe Art Institute
  Artist in Residence
• Caldera
  Artist in Residence

2008

• Tokyo Type Director’s Club
  Interactive Design Prize · The Whale Hunt
• Webby Awards
  Personal Site · The Whale Hunt
• Webby Awards
  Visual Design (Nominee) · The Whale Hunt
• Print Magazine
  New Visual Artist
• Creativity Magazine
  Creativity Top 50
• ID Magazine
  Annual Design Review (Nominee) · The Whale Hunt

2007

• Webby Awards
  Net Art (Nominee) · We Feel Fine
• Webby Awards
  Visual Design (Nominee) · We Feel Fine
• Webby Awards
  Structure / Navigation (Nominee) · We Feel Fine

2006

• Webby Awards
  Net Art (Nominee) · Just Curious
• Webby Awards
  Structure / Navigation (Nominee) · Phylotaxis
• Pixel Awards
  Weird · We Feel Fine
• Pixel Awards
  Best In Show (Nominee) · We Feel Fine

2005

• Webby Awards
  Structure / Navigation · 10x10
• Webby Awards
  Arts (People’s Voice) · Wordcount
• Ars Electronica
  Net Vision (Honorable Mention) · 10x10
• ID Annual Design Review
  Interactive Art (Honorable Mention) · 10x10
• Flash Forward
  Technical Merit · 10x10
• How Magazine
  Interactive Design Award · 10x10
• PC Magazine
  Top 100 Websites of 2005 · Wordcount

2004

• Favorite Website Awards
  Site of the Day · 10x10

2003

• Fabrica
  Fellowship
• AIGA Design Awards
  Best Information Design · Wordcount

2002

• Associated Collegiate Press
  Leader of the Student Press · Troubadour Magazine

2001

• Society of Professional Journalists
  Best Online Student Magazine · Troubadour Magazine

1999

• State of Vermont
  Vermont State Quarter (Co-Designer)

1998

• Deerfield Academy
  Orra White Hitchcock Award for the Visual Arts

1997

• Deerfield Academy
  The Williams Cup

Talks

2015

• The Phi Centre
  Montreal, Cananda · Sensory Stories
• Global Ideas Forum
  Melbourne, Australia · Forum
• Magnum Foundation
  New York, NY · Digital Interventions
• Sundance New Frontier
  New York, NY · Edelman Story Lab

2014

• Aspen Ideas Festival
  Aspen, CO · How is technology changing the art of writing? · Is technology undermining human intelligence?
• Tribeca Film Festival
  New York, NY · TFI Interactive
• Columbia University
  New York, NY · Bit By Bit
• Sundance Film Festival
  Park City, UT · New Frontier
• Sundance Story Lab
  Miami, FL
• Art Center College of Design
  Pasadena, CA

2013

• TED Salon
  New York, NY · Fiction salon
• Fabrica
  Treviso, Italy · Workshop
• Transom
  Woods Hole, MA
• Vivid Sydney
  Sydney, Australia · Talk
• International Documentary Film Festival
  Amsterdam, Netherlands · Talk
• Docville Film Festival
  Leuven, Belgium

2012

• The New York Times
  New York, NY
• DLD Conference
  Munich, Germany · Talk
• PSFK Conference
  New York, NY · Talk
• EG Conference
  Monterey, CA
• Future of Storytelling Conference
  New York, NY
• Eyeo Festival
  Minneapolis, MN · Talk
• Creative Mornings
  Brooklyn, NY · Talk
• Creative Summit
  Skelleftea, Sweden
• OFFF Conference
  Barcelona, Spain
• The Internet Archive
  San Francisco, CA
• UC Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA
• RISD
  Providence, RI
• MIT
  Cambridge, MA
• CCA
  San Francisco, CA · Talk

2011

• Columbia University
  New York, NY
• ONA Conference
  Washington, D.C.
• Gravity Free Conference
  San Francisco, CA
• Anderson Ranch
  Aspen, Colorado
• Caldera
  Sisters, OR
• RISD
  Providence, RI
• School of Visual Arts
  New York, NY

2010

• DLD Conference
  Munich, Germany · Talk
• AIGA / GAIN Conference
  New York, NY · Talk
• Shift Happens Conference
  York, UK
• Pratt University
  Brooklyn, NY · Talk
• School of Visual Arts
  New York, NY
• University of Vermont
  Burlington, VT

2009

• World Economic Forum
  Dead Sea, Jordan
• Pecha Kucha
  New York, NY · Talk
• Sundance Film Festival
  Park City, UT
• New Media Meeting
  Norrköping, Sweden
• UCLA
  Los Angeles, CA

2008

• World Science Festival
  New York, NY
• Flash on the Beach
  Brighton, UK · Talk
• Pangea Day
  Los Angeles, CA · Talk
• Tokyo Type Directors Club
  Tokyo, Japan
• Princeton University
  Princeton, NJ
• Yale University
  New Haven, CT
• Apple Store
  New York, NY
• Grafill
  Oslo, Norway
• Gultaggen
  Oslo, Norway
• ITP
  New York, NY

2007

• TED Conference
  Monterey, CA · Talk
• PopTech Conference
  Camden, ME · Talk
• EG Conference
  Los Angeles, CA · Talk
• MoMA
  New York, NY
• Royal Academy of Art
  Den Haag, The Netherlands
• William De Kooning Academy
  Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• National Academy of Sciences
  Washington, D.C.
• Singapore Design Festival
  Singapore
• OFFF Conference
  New York, NY
• Picnic Conference
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Talk
• TTI Vanguard
  Barcelona, Spain

2006

• OFFF Conference
  Barcelona, Spain
• Syracuse University
  Syracuse, New York
• The Gathering
  Brooklyn, NY
• Deerfield Academy
  Deerfield, MA

2005

• Google
  Mountain View, CA
• Stanford University
  Palo Alto, CA
• Princeton University
  Princeton, NJ
• Parsons, The New School for Design
  New York, NY
• Hofstra University
  Hempstead, NY
• The Gathering
  Lenox, MA

Press

2015

• The New York Times
  Can’t Put Down Your Device? That’s by Design
• The Washington Post
  How the Internet’s most earnest evangelist became its fiercest critic
• CBC Radio
  We're so connected we're disconnected
• Fast Company Design
  Experience The Web In All Its Horribleness With This 7-Minute Media Onslaught
• Flowing Data
  Network Effect overwhelms with data
• Wired
  This Voyeuristic Site Will Make You Reconsider Social Media
• Handelsblatt
  The web needs better tools for empathy
• PSFK
  The Creator of Network Effect Reveals Why Attention Means Everything
• BBH Labs
  Making The Internet Bad/Better/Good
• We Heart
  You are wasting your life. Do not read this story, go outside and speak to someone instead
• Bustle
  The 'Network Effect' Interactive Art Projects Shows The Effect The Internet Has On Our Anxiety & It's Honestly Terrifying
• Wired (Germany)
  Network Effect shows the voyeuristic horror of social networks
• Infopresse (France)
  Network effect: une utilisation originale du data
• Presse Text (Germany)
  Network Effect: Voyeurism network with expiration dates
• Entwickler (Germany)
  Network Effect: The Daily Social Media Madness
• 444 (Hungary)
  Facebook will push the grave of civilization, and we all dig the hole
• Iltalehti (Finland)
  This strange piece of art Finnish only allows 7.9 minutes per day
• Fredzone (France)
  This bizarre website puts you in the shoes of a voyeur

2014

• The Great Discontent
  Interview
• Design Matters
  Interview
• The Atlantic
  When will robots take over the world?
• TIME Magazine
  I Love Your Work
• Zone Zero
  Interview
• How Design
  Interview
• Miami Herald
  Miami Filmmaking Scene Lures Sundance
• IndieWire
  Are Interactive Films Transforming Modern Storytelling?
• i-Docs
  Slow web, slow food.
• Filmmaker Magazine
  Inside the Lesbian Porn Industry
• Filmmaker Magazine
  Becoming Unstuck
• Freunde Von Freunden
  A portrait of Vito Acconci by Jonathan Harris
• PSFK
  How Creatives Deal With Getting Stuck
• Swiss Miss
  Navigating Stuckness

2013

• The New York Times
  An Online Meter Reader
• The Village Voice
  Documenting the Lives of Lesbian Porn Stars
• Print Magazine
  Inside Story (PDF, 12 mb)
• The Huffington Post
  Being Naked in Public and Feeling Naked in Private
• The Human Face of Big Data
  Modern Medicine
• The New York Times
  The PG Lives of X-Rated Stars
• Slate
  Inside Ten Days on a Lesbian Porn Set
• Vice
  Why We Like to Look at Pornstars' Twitters
• Jezebel
  American Culture Is Fascinated With the ‘Other Side’ of the Porn Industry
• Submarine Channel
  Profile
• Fast Company Create
  A Storytelling Innovator Examines the World of Lesbian Porn
• Fast Company Design
  An Interactive Documentary Modeled On Internet Porn
• The New York Times
  Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet
• Cool Hunting
  Interview
• ABC Radio
  Make Data Beautiful
• Creativity
  The Lives of Lesbian Porn Stars
• The Dish
  The People Behind The Porn
• Fleshbot
  An Interactive Documentary On Lesbian Porn
• Yorokobu
  Retrato íntimo de Jonathan Harris a 9 actrices porno lesbianas
• Narratively
  People Really Like It They Just Don’t Tell Their Friends
• Alpha-ville
  I Love Your Work
• Outword Magazine
  I Love Your Work Looks at the Lives of 
 Lesbian Porn Stars
• Possible
  An exploration of online community
• After Ellen
  A glimpse of the real lives of women in queer porn
• FBI Radio
  Out of the Box

2012

• The New York Times
  Pull Up a Mouse and Stay a While
• The Washington Post
  Cowbird sets photos to song
• Los Angeles Times
  Best of the Web
• TIME Magazine
  50 Best Websites of 2012
• The Wall Street Journal
  Can We Humanize the Web?
• Deerfield Alumni Magazine
  An Ode to Code
• PBS
  How National Geographic Used Cowbird Storytelling Tool to Tell a Reservation’s Whole Story
• Big Think
  Rethinking Social Networking
• To The Best of Our Knowledge
  Hatching a New Way to Tell Stories
• New Scientist
  A Wikipedia for life's meaningful moments
• TechCrunch
  Cowbird Is A Community For Amazing Storytellers, And Another Reason To Love The Internet
• Print Magazine
  To Heal and Hurt
• ABC Radio
  We Feel Fine
• Columbia Journalism Review
  National Geographic launches a ‘ballsy’ online project
• The New York Times
  Photographing, and Listening to, the Lakota
• Forbes
  Cowbird: Facebook Stories' Launch Recalls An Artistic Storytelling Project
• Columbia Journalism Review
  Telling the News on Cowbird
• Read Write Web
  How Cowbird Transforms Storytelling on the Web
• Wired Italy
  Cowbird è l'anti-Facebook
• The Michigan Daily
  Slow down with Cowbird
• Technology for Publishing
  Transforming Storytelling, Publishing, and Advocacy: National Geographic, Cowbird, and Pine Ridge
• Journalism
  Tool of the week for journalists: Cowbird, for unedited storytelling
• Media Bistro
  National Geographic’s Aaron Huey on Digital Collaboration and Community Storytelling
• Frank Watching
  Cowbird: ‘slowcial network’ voor diepgang en reflectie
• Zeitjung
  Cowbird: Wikipedia des Lebens
• PSFK
  Are Self-Reflection And Timelessness Possible On The Internet?
• The Daily Pennsylvanian
  I want you to want me
• IdeaMensch
  Jonathan Harris – Founder of Cowbird
• All My Faves
  Cowbird Stories: For When 140 Characters Just Isn't Enough
• Preventi
  Jonathan Harris is a Global Nomad
• The Star
  Social media site Cowbird is part Oprah, part Wikipedia
• Yorokubu
  Cowbird, la vaca que vuela

2011

• The Atlantic
  Balloons for Bhutan: Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness
• Brain Pickings
  The Storytelling of Life
• Design Mind
  The Never-Ending Story
• NPR
  Measuring Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness With Balloons
• Design Indaba
  Bountiful Balloons
• PSFK
  Exploring a Nation’s Happiness With Balloons
• TED
  Bringing Gross National Happiness from the Himalayas
• Matador
  Balloons of Bhutan: A happiness project
• The Bhutan Canada Foundation
  Balloons of Bhutan
• Visual News
  Balloons of Bhutan: Stories of a Nation’s Happiness
• IDFA DocLab
  A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom.
• Art News
  The Social Revolution
• Rockport Publishers
  Graphic Design Referenced
• PopTech
  6 questions with Jonathan Harris
• Creative Journal
  Jonathan Harris, Today
• PopTech
  Watch Jonathan Harris’ “Today” today
• Mixing Reality
  Jonathan Harris: Today

2010

• NPR
  The Cloud Of Human Feeling: Art, Science And Ways Of Knowing
• Seven Days
  Stuck in Vermont
• Artful World
  Art Opening - Jonathan Harris, Inner Landscapes

2009

• Thames and Hudson
  Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future
• The Washington Post
  Storytelling is Stuck in a Rut
• Nylon Guys
  This Modern Life
• The Rumpus
  I Want You To Want Me
• Brain Pickings
  World Building in a Crazy World
• Brain Pickings
  We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
• Business Week
  The 21 Heroes of Data Visualization
• Slate
  Viz Whiz
• Print Magazine
  The Irresistible Appeal of Info Porn
• Paste Magazine
  Online Artwork Documents a Web of Emotion
• Vermont Public Television
  Technology of Social Science
• Wired UK
  The Sum of All Emotions
• The Huffington Post
  The 10 Most Common Feelings Worldwide: We Feel Fine
• Flavorwire
  Daily Dose Pick: We Feel Fine
• Furtherfield
  We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
• Flowing Data
  Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris
• Daily Candy
  Nothing More Than Feelings
• Design Notes
  We Feel Fine by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris
• Data Visualization
  We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
• Brain Pickings
  Revolutionary Fringe-Think: Sputnik Observatory
• Fast Company
  Sputnik Observatory: A Repository That Shows How Big Ideas Are Connected
• Infosthetics
  Sputnik Observatory for the Study of Contemporary Culture
• Treehugger
  Sputnik Observatory Video Project Kinda Like TED, But Not
• We Media
  Sputnik: An observatory above the ordinary
• Influx
  Depth and originality over the derviative and the superficial
• Trendspotting
  For a Better (Digital) World
• Avoision
  World Building in a Crazy World: Vignettes by Jonathan Harris
• Max Kiesler
  Universe by Jonathan Harris
• Digital Bazaar
  Justcurio.us : What’s your question?

2008

• The New York Times
  Picturing the Future
• Adobe
  Telling Stories Using Data
• To The Best of Our Knowledge
  Generation We
• Print Magazine
  New Visual Artists
• Vice Magazine
  The Whale Hunt
• Creativity Magazine
  Creativity Top 50
• Creative Review
  Only Connect
• ID Magazine
  Annual Design Review
• Wired
  Frame That Spam
• Digital Journal
  Profile
• Bon Magazine
  Whale Hunting
• IDN Magazine
  Infographics
• Brain Pickings
  I Want You To Want Me
• Page Magazine
  InfoDesign Interaktiv
• Wallpaper
  Design and the Elastic Mind
• Business Week
  Art Museum as Research Lab
• New York Art Beat
  Design and the Elastic Mind
• Rhizome
  Design and the Elastic Mind
• Globo
  Segredos de anônimos transformam internet em confessionário virtual
• Infosthetics
  I Want You To Want Me
• Utterubbish
  A Collection of Use-Less Ideas
• Digicult
  Feeling Software
• Calcalist
  The Internet is Mad Today: 1, 2, 3
• Bergens Tidende
  Double Happiness
• IDFA DocLab
  The Whale Hunt

2007

• The New York Times
  Turn-Ons Include Museums and Gmail. Turn-Offs Are Liars.
• BBC World Service
  We Feel Fine
• Reuters
  Getting Human Feelings on the Web
• Metropolis
  Dreaming in Code
• USA Today
  The Whale Hunt Gives us a New Form of Visual Storytelling
• GOOD Magazine
  Jonathan and the Whale
• New York Magazine
  The Approval Matrix
• TED
  The Whale Hunt
• Fast Company
  Masters of Design: Talent Pool
• Coolhunting
  Profile
• El Pais
  Yahoo y Google, elevados al grado de arte
• 99U
  Jonathan Harris: We Feel Fine
• Brain Pickings
  This Story is Not a Fairy Tale
• Worldchanging
  Interview
• Eye Magazine
  So Incredible It Almost Brings Me To Tears
• SEED Magazine
  Zeitgeist
• Edge
  Revealing our Modern Mythology
• Buzzmachine
  Extreme Storytelling
• Josh Spear
  Universe
• Ethan Zuckerman
  New Constellations
• Very Short List
  Moby Dick 2.0
• Coolhunting
  The Whale Hunt
• Infosthetics
  Revealing Modern Mythology
• CNET
  Site maps 'Universe' through constellation of news
• MetaFilter
  Universe, by Jonathan Harris and the world
• MetaFilter
  The Whale Hunt
• Turbulence
  Universe by Jonathan Harris

2006

• New York Arts Magazine
  Renaissance Man for the Information Age
• Time Out New York
  Blog Rolling
• Reuters
  Time Capsule
• CNN
  The Insiders Guide to Talking to Aliens
• USA Today
  Yahoo! Starts Digital Time Capsule
• ABC World News
  Inside the World’s Largest Time Capsule
• Der Spiegel
  Netzwelt-Ticker
• Fabrica
  Interview
• The Guardian
  The time capsule, after 10 x 10
• Yahoo!
  Reflections on the Time Capsule
• Slashdot
  Yahoo's Time Capsule Project
• New Statesman
  The Art of Feelings
• Playpen
  Taking the emotional temperature of the world
• Adotas
  Feeling the Marketing Way
• Generator X
  We Feel Fine
• Infosthetics
  We Feel Fine
• Infosthetics
  Lovelines

2005

• BBC
  Interesting information access
• Voice of America
  Interview
• Chicago Tribune
  Art created out of news — every hour on the hour
• Wired
  A Fluid Look at the News
• The Washington Post
  The Style Invitational
• PC Magazine
  Top 100 Websites of 2005
• The Guardian
  We Feel Fine
• The Guardian
  10 x 10
• Contagious Magazine
  10 x 10
• MILK Magazine
  10 x 10
• Desktop Magazine
  10 x 10
• MetaFilter
  Phylotaxis is pretty. And trippy. It's pretty trippy.
• Infosthetics
  Wordcount
• Infosthetics
  Phylotaxis

2004

• USA Today
  10 x 10 presents the news at a glance
• CNN
  Headline News Interview · 10 x 10
• La Repubblica
  Il mondo intero in cento parole E' 10x10, nuovo fenomeno web
• Voice of America
  Wordmaster
• Creative Review
  Wordcount
• Vorn Magazine
  Understanding Vorn
• Slashdot
  Tracking The (English) Words We Use
• Infosthetics
  10 x 10

2002

• Princeton Alumni Weekly
  An artist, traveler, and computer geek
• The Daily Princetonian
  Two seniors launch Troubadour magazine